Eric M. Hutchins

Recent press reports indicate that a cyber-attack disabled the third-party platform used by an oil and gas pipeline company to exchange documents with customers. Effects from the attack were largely confined because no other systems were impacted, including industrial controls for critical infrastructure. The attack comes on the heels of an FBI and Department of Homeland Security alert warning of Russian attempts to target industrial control systems, as well as an indictment against Iranian nationals for attacking private, education, and government intuitions, including FERC. These incidents are raising questions about cybersecurity across the US pipeline network.…Continue Reading

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The Hunton Andrews Kurth LLP pipeline practice, comprising more than 75 lawyers, has been providing legal advice to the oil and gas industry for over fifty years. We advise and represent numerous oil and gas companies across the US on virtually all types of environmental, regulatory compliance and enforcement defense issues involving the design, siting, construction, testing, operation, maintenance and integrity management of oil and gas pipelines. Our team draws on its strong working relationships with the various federal and state agencies that regulate pipeline activities to manage clients’ evolving legal and business needs as efficiently and effectively as possible. With representations in nearly all 50 states, our depth of experience is matched by our geographical footprint.

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